Ethical Issues - Case Study

Running head: ETHICAL ISSUES
Ethical Issues
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ETHICAL ISSUES1
Analysis of Scenario 1:
“A company’s employee uses their work computer to test some software that their friend bought.
It only takes a few minutes and they uninstall it after they are done.”
This is incorrect as per the ethics of work. According to the code of work ethics, the
computers or the equipment provided by the company should be solely used for the work of the
company. Any other external usage of those device may lead to violation of one of the most
important policy of the workplace and that is the privacy policy. By allowing a person to access
to the device and install a software for testing is provoking the danger of unknown attacks from
the hackers who are present. Malwares can be planted into the system which may lead to
tracking of the entire system subjecting entire organization’s data to the threat of loss.
Analysis of the Scenario 2:
“A company’s employee was curious as to what the “higher-ups” pay looks like. They break the
passcodes and take a quick peek at the salaries.”
Breaking into system without authorization of the administrator of the system is a crime
in itself. This can also be termed as the breach in the security of the data as the employees are not
allowed to access the administrative databases. This is against the data protection act as well.
This could have a severe impact on the employees which would have led to their termination as
well.
All though as the part of the organization, the employees have the right to know about all
the necessary details regarding the pay scales. A formal query could have between generated by
the employee instead of misusing the password for breaking into the system.